Improvement in medicated plasters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL E. AUDOUIT, OF HAVRE, FRANCE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICATED PLASTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,503, dated January20, 1874; applii ution filed October 6, 1873. I

To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL E. AUDOUIT, .of Havre, France, have invented acertain new and Improved Medicinal Compound, Adapted for FormingPlasters, of which the following is a specification:

One of the most important uses of my compound is in the preparation ofplasters to be applied to the pit of the stomach to preventsea-sickness. Its eflicacy in this use has been established by repeatedexperiments.

The following is a description of what I consider the best means ofcarrying out the invention.

I take of'what is known as diachylon, or sometimes called court-plaster,in wafers-an oxide of lead and oil-(in French, emplatre de diachylon,')two grams; with this I thoroughly mix two grams of theriaca andromachi,

or Venice treacle, (in French, theriaque,)

and one gram of extract of belladonna, (in French, extrait bel1adonne,)and preserve the resulting pasty mass in a tightly-stoppered vessel. 7

a To use the compound as a preventive for sea-sickness, or as a cureafter it has conr I menced, I spread it to about the thickness of a anordinary adhesive plaster on a small oval piece of kid or other softleather making the plaster about three inches long and two and a halfinches wide. One of these plasters, being slightly warmed, is appliedand caused to stick on the pit of the stomach.

I propose to prepare the plasters, ready spread, in large quantities, asan article of travelers supplies, or of trade generally.

The plaster, applied as above, may be used with safety and success inall cases of nausea, from whatever cause, excepting always those caseswhere it is desired for any cause to free the stomach by vomiting. Inall cases of retching and vomiting from a disturbed condition of thenerves, in which it is desired to allay irritation and produce acessation of the symptoms by inducing a sound, healt hycondition of thenerves pertaining to the stomach, my plaster may be applied, either inthe small size indicated, or larger and more thickly spread, as

the case may require.

I believe that thin muslin, paper, thin vegetable parchment, and variousother substances may be used with success as a foundation for theplaster. I

I claim as my invention-- l. The within described medicinal compound. I

2. The plaster spread with the within-described medicinal compound, andadapted for use as herein specified.

I11 testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day ofSeptember, 1873, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PAUL E. AUDOUIT.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. DEY, ARNOLD HoRMANN.

